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Article: Culturally sensitive smoking cessation programs needed.
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- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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2003 JUN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Culturally sensitive smoking cessation programs for South Asian people are needed, say researchers in Britain.
Recent surveys have shown that smoking is particularly common in Bangladeshi men, yet influences on smoking behavior in South Asians in Britain are poorly understood.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 87 men and 54 women from Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities in Newcastle upon Tyne to understand their attitudes and behavior in relation to smoking. Results appeared in the British Medical Journal.
Four highly inter-related themes were found to influence views on smoking: gender, age, ...